What’s Mine is Yours:

Planning, Designing,

and Implementing

Shared Streets

NACTO 2015: Designing Cities

Presented by:

Janet L. Attarian, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Livable Streets Director

What is a Shared Street?

Bell Street – Seattle, Washington

Shared Street Examples

Longfellow Street – Santa Monica, California King Street – Kitchener, Ontario Allen Street – Buffalo, New York

By any other names?

Woonerf

Living Street

Curbless Street

Flex Street

Longfellow Street – Santa Monica, California Georgia Street – Indianapolis, Indiana

River Street – Batavia, IllinoisVienna, Austria

• CTA train station

• Asian market place

• Night market

• Community support

• Business support

Argyle Shared Street

Argyle Shared Street

Argyle Shared Street

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Argyle Shared Street

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• One acre of stormwater BMP’s• 2.95acre of catchment area• 33.6% impervious area reduction• 91.5% of project area diverted to stormwater BMP’s

Argyle Shared Street

Designate and Define a Shared Street

Shared Street – a segment of the public right of way, usually from property line to property line, shared by all users, pedestrians, bicyclists, motor vehicles, and other City approved modes of transportation, to create a common public open space where pedestrian circulation is given priority over other transportation uses. A variety of design and operational treatments are implemented to encourage all users to move at walking speed. Design and operational treatments may include, but are not limited to, special paving, chicanes, and traffic calming measures with minimal traffic control devices, toensure safe coexistence of pedestrians, bicycles and motor vehicles.

Reduce Allowable Vehicular Speed to 10 mph (State and Local)

Current Chicago Ordinance allows for speed limits to be reduced to 20 mph minimum as allowed by the Illinois Vehicle Code:

“Where the commissioner of transportation has determined on the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation that the statutory speed limits are greater or less than is reasonable or safe with respect to the conditions found to exist along any part of any roadway, the urban speed limits may be increased, but not in excess of 55 miles per hour, and may be diminished, but not to less than 20 miles per hour, and the nonurban speed limit may be diminished, but not to less than 35 miles per hour, when such determination is approved by an ordinance of the city council.”

Give pedestrians right-of-way outside of crosswalks.

Current Chicago Ordinance only gives pedestrians right-of-way on roadways within designated crosswalks:

“Where stop signs are in place at any crosswalk at an intersection or between intersections, pedestrians within or entering the crosswalk at either edge of the roadway shall have the right-of-way over vehicles stopped in obedience to such signs.“

“When the movement of traffic is not controlled by traffic-control devices, a police officer or traffic control aide, the operator of a vehicle shall stop and yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.”

Argyle Shared Street – Ordinance Changes

• Chicago established itself as the nation’s headquarters of the meatpacking industry during the Civil War and it retained that position until the 1920s.

• The Fulton - Randolph Market district preceded other markets in the city’s history, and is the only one that continues to function as a place for the wholesale distribution of food.

• Fulton Market district has functioned historically and currently as a meatpacking area, and conveys Chicago’s importance as a wholesale market into which flowed the agricultural bounty of the Midwest and West.

• The district is the oldest food marketing district in Chicago with an ensemble of historic mercantile buildings that continue to function to a substantial degree as wholesale produce and meatpacking outlets.

• Poised for continued business growth, the Fulton Market area is an ideal location for Chicago’s self-proclaimed “innovation district,” a business center attractive to companies that leverage technology to produce real and virtual goods.

• Fulton Market possesses traditional industrial and supportive services offering urban vibrancy and authenticity that attract new economy companies, such as with the arrival of Google in 2015.

Fulton Market

Fulton Market Flex Street – Project Overview

• Existing land uses on Fulton are varied, from heavy industrial to retail/commercial to residential and are

changing

• The current conditions allow for a fair amount of flexibility in use and accommodate the way the right-of-

way is used throughout the day and week, but public safety and accessibility issues are a concern and

infrastructure needs upgrades

• The goal of the project, therefore, has been to maintain this flexibility while improving public safety,

upgrading infrastructure and providing enhancements that respect the historic character and significance

of the area

• In order to improve safety, a consistent narrowed single drive lane is proposed throughout the project

and parking and loading is organized with a combination of diagonal and parallel parking spaces,

defined with bump-outs to improve pedestrian safety at intersections, maximize parking opportunities,

and accommodate loading

• The proposed design takes advantage of existing conditions to create a flexstreet design in the three

blocks between Green and Morgan which can be easily closed to traffic for market days

Fulton Market Flex Street

Fulton Market Flex Street

Fulton Market Flex Street

Looking East at Green St.

Proposed Conditions – Looking East at Peoria St.

Looking West between Green St. & Peoria St.

Fulton Market Flex Street

Fulton Market Flex Street

Proposed Day (Trucks/Distribution) Proposed Night

Fulton Market Flex Street

Proposed Conditions – Looking West at Sangamon St.

Fulton Market Flex Street

Proposed Day (Trucks/Distribution) Proposed Night

Proposed Conditions – Looking East between Sangamon St. and Morgan St.

Fulton Market Flex Street

Janet L Attarian, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

janet.attarian@cityofchicago.org

312-744-3100

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